Study the following presentation.
As you have seen, historians need sources ('fuentes') for writing history. Let's classify them according to their different nature:
A) Texts
- Written documents
- Oral texts
B) Material sources:
- Fossil parts of human bodies, animals, plants…
- Artefacts: tools, pottery, decorative objects.
- Structures: buildings, roads, public works…
- Works of art: paintings, sculptures…
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Thank you very much to the 7 people who have answered the form. Your answers are pretty good in general, here I make some comments on a few 'strange' answers.
ReplyDeleteAbout question 3:
This question is about the sources of information (where you look for the original information that you need for writing, not where you write the history: it doesn't matter if you're writing a book or a magazine).
How can you get a photograph from a war that happened in the 3rd century BC, that is 22 centuries before the invention of photography??
In question 5, a conversation is also a text (an oral text).
In question 6, a skull is not an artifact (it is a fossil). Somebody marked that you can use a letter for writing prehistory, I suppose this was just an involuntary mistake. How can you use a letter if writing didn't exist?
In question 7, the correct answers are: 3, 5, 14. You can also consider 7, 13 and even 11 as works of art.
As you can see, the conclusion is that studying prehistory is very difficult because there are very few sources of information